Generate editor.rulers workspace settings from max_line_length?

• I have a question that is specific to this extension; thus, inappropriate for the main EditorConfig issue tracker.

Hi, this is a feature request. I’ve read #53, where max_line_length was previously looked at, and it was decided that there shouldn’t be any sort of auto-wrapping based on this setting, which I agree with.

However something that was mentioned in that thread, but not further discussed, was generating equivalent editor.rulers settings based on the max_line_length, giving the user a visual guide in the editor, but nothing more. (Apparently this is what Atom already does.)

I’ve had a request on my own extension (that does comment wrapping) to support max_line_length. Since that extension can already use rulers, I’m kinda hoping to kill two birds with one stone here.

[jednano]

@ChrisCrewdson thanks for the explanation. It makes sense now. I can’t think of a graceful way of doing this and I think it would require way more engineering than it’s worth. Also, it might be confusing that EditorConfig is somehow drawing a relationship between two completely different settings. I think there’s more bad than good that can come out of this.

I think what you all really want is https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/issues/89 to be implemented, in which case, the editor.rulers setting wouldn’t even be needed. Let’s continue that conversation rather than going down this rabbit hole.

[robsonsobral]

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